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Assembly Bill A6534

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires the electronic cigarette and vaping prevention, awareness and control program be used by all schools

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2025-A6534 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1399-ii-1, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A9952

2025-A6534 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the electronic cigarette and vaping prevention, awareness and control program be used by all schools.

2025-A6534 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6534
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 5, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring certain
   persons attend the electronic cigarette and vaping prevention,  aware-
   ness and control program
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 1399-ii-1 of the public health  law,  as  added  by
 section  11  of part EE of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, is amended to
 read as follows:
   § 1399-ii-1. Electronic cigarette and vaping prevention, awareness and
 control program. The commissioner shall,  in  consultation  and  collab-
 oration  with  the  commissioner  of education, establish and develop an
 electronic  cigarette  and  vaping  prevention,  control  and  awareness
 program within the department. Such program shall be designed to educate
 students, parents and school personnel about the health risks associated
 with  vapor product use and control measures to reduce the prevalence of
 vaping, particularly among persons less than twenty-one  years  of  age.
 Such  program shall include, but not be limited to, the creation of age-
 appropriate instructional tools and materials that [may] SHALL  be  used
 by  all  schools,  and marketing and advertising materials to discourage
 electronic cigarette use.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
 on or before such effective date.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10224-01-5

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